This has been a somewhat frantic month of trips to Portland, apartment hunting, working strange hours, attempting to rid ourselves of everything that won’t fit in the new apartment, organizing, making messes, marathon training, and general exhaustion. But it’s also been a delightful month of reading in the hammock, taking evening strolls, planning future adventures,…
above the fog.
Greetings from the fog! It’s been fog city around these parts for the past couple of weeks. But we braved the cold and fog today for a hike up Spencer Butte. My favorite thing about living in Eugene is how close we live to great hikes like this. Even though this is a hike that…
hiking the ridgeline trail.
I think jet lag might be contagious. How else can we explain the fact that we both went to bed at 8:45 last night? And while the truly jet lagged individual woke up at 3:15 this morning, I, who have been in the same time zone for the past 3 months, awoke at 4 am….
touring oregon with the ringers: eugene.
We stayed local for our last day with Eric’s parents in Eugene. After a trip to the coast and to the Cascade Mountains, we wanted to show them a little of the actual town where we live. We started with breakfast at Hideaway Bakery, followed by a walk around Hendricks Park (which is far less…
hiking spencer butte.
It’s Saturday, which means that it’s an Ally-day. Ally-days are the best because I get Eric all to myself for a full day of exploring and fun (although I will admit that I shared today with an Oregon football game). We started our morning with a walk down the street to the Humble Bagel Company…